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It's good advise for newbies... I do not see any reason to flame him.. 404 traffic converts better than tgp advertising (for us atleast)... 1:400 is not bad for traffic that would have been lost otherwise. Give the guy a break, he is trying to help people.

been there, done that. fortunately a lot of tgp scripts out there will catch a redirect and deny you without submitting.. and ultimately a blacklist.

it sucks if you merely typo, you're hosed :(


i do that on my sites. it does help a bit with traffic, and keeps interest. i've got a few sites that basically is the only traffic generation. it isn't great by any means, but it does the job.

what i should probably do is change it so the gallery dirs won't redirect, only basically anything else. that would probably be smarter. i guess i figure just not making a typo is the best route :)

it won't build a 200k tgp tho.. that's for sure :)

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leave me alone.

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You can use ErrorDocument anywhere within the VirtualHost directive in apache.conf... (ie different 404 configs for different domains)

you wouldnt beleive how many ICQ i am getting thanking me for posting this tip ... i wish some of these people would post here so others can see it works.

got one today:

xxxxxx (2:01 PM) :
hey hows it going
xxxxxx (2:02 PM) :
thanks for the 404 trap tip that trick generates a decent amount of sales



so i figured since it actually helped people, id bump this and hopefully help more people?


enjoy

oh and ...

50 newbie guides from lil2rich4u2 !

ROFL!!!

This is the best way to do it in my opinion, And instead of setting 404 traps, put something like a very big clean gallery in place of your 404 page . Some domains i put 404 traps , but you also dont want to hurt a potential returning surfer by blazing them with popups.

i didnt mean popup hell, i meant just catch your 404 and send it somewhere to make you some dough.

i have sent alot to: www.whoic.com

:/

Great tip man. thanks

well i don't know this guy lil2rich4u2, but my hat is off to him for reminding me to do this last week on all my domains.

and looks like i picked up about 5% of traffic, mostly from deliberate hack attempts.

and then i went around to some "well-known" high traffic sites run by people i consider to be sharpies, to see if they were redirecting their 404 traffic.

and i was surprised how many were not, just letting their 404s go to dead pages.


danni.com/dfajk4 yes, redirecting, good.
alsscan.com/sdfdfa dead page
webvirgins.com/sdfjadsl dead page
thewetlands.com/sdfjfla3 dead page

point is, you don't need to be a newbie to be reminded to use a good tip.

thanks lil2rich4u2 !

no problem dude, and thanks so much for kind words ...

i tried to do what you had suggested and TheHun banned me :(

(maybe other TGPs too, didnt check yet :ak47: )

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there is no reason to be banned man, unless you submitted wrong url

It's tip to be square.

It's hip to be square! Great song by Huey Lewis and The News.

Sorry for bumping such an old thread but can this be done with AS (spaced numbered galleries)?

not sure actually. i know you can START from a specified number/letter but not sure if you can randomize it ... been some time since ive played with settings

basically you want to trick the surfer into thinking there is more free porn if he plays with the numbers .... then hit him with your 404 trap!

Thought of this the day I started doing galleries ;)

404 trap or any trap = BANNED

This applies to all my TGPs. You plain don't know all of them I am running.

So if you think this is kwel or makes you $$, think again. 404 traffic management is fine and important. You will make $. Traps means I lose total control of the surfers to my sites. It also leads to a pissed off surfer that won't come back.

have done that for along time, easy to do.

Not being sarcastic, but why is a redirect like that a trap? If the surfer deliberately tries to type in a page that he wasn't linked to, whay is that a trap?

The subject of this thread is 404 traps. If you capture the 404 error and redirect to a console or two = no problem and smart. All your pages should. not all of mine do as we speak cause I moved to a new server for some sites and have to redue some .htaccess files.

If you put the surfer in a true trap, then that pisses me off as does any sort of malware. I have to fight this problem every day. Gallery submitters do all sorts of crazy things. Send you trojans, dial traps, console pages, galleries with no sponsor or recips (this one puzzles me, but happens daily), thumb links that lead to exit hell or traps. I use scripts and check manually.

As you could guess, I have plenty of defense setup on the PCs use to review galleries. To protect the suffer, I don't block some stuff so I know about it. Can't say exactly what I do, cause more than a few would send me shit to deal with. Have been beatup enough, that I usually recover fairly quick when a submitter sends me malware.

Right now I'm on GFY as I clean up a mess on another pc normally used for gallery review. In the end, sometimes a rebuild is required. No doubt I could be smarter to get through the maze. Ya do what ya have to do with what you know.

All this leads to a sensitive ban the mofo triger. Not always fair as the submitter may be new and not even aware of some of the issues.